This course starts in Autumn parallel. This course has teaching/evaluation in Autumn parallel.

Course frequency: Annually

First time: 2005V

Preferential right:

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Course contents:

Tourism as a phenomenon and as an industry the tourism product destination development local economic impact of tourism nature based tourism, sustainable tourism.

Learning outcome:

Knowledge:

During the course the students will acquire general knowledge about tourism as a phenomenon and as a business in Norway. They will also gain insights in how the major tourism organisations work for different parts of nature based tourism.

Skills:

The students will gain skills about how to carry out simpler analyses of tourism projects, calculate local impacts of tourism activities, and design and accomodate projects to local conditions with regard to dimensions of sustainability.

General competence:

The students will possess competence with regard to tourism in general, and nature based tourism more specifically. They will develop an understanding of the role of nature based resources for tourism as a business, and also possess competence of many of the organisations and stakeholders within tourism.

Learning activities:

Lectures and compulsory term paper.

Teaching support:

The course responsible will be available for consultations during office hours.